Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-03-11
J AND EXERCISE.
! ATHLETE GIVES SOME RULES
FOa MUSCULAR DEVELOPMENT.

Exercise shoaiA be Avoided Early in the
Morn:ns-D,d Effects of Training on
an Empty stomach Weight and
Height.
A reporter asked Professor j. NJ. Latin,
the athlete about some of the rules for
muscular Development and the food and
exercise necessary. He said:
GA man must not impose upon his
stomach; it is the boiler, the engine, as it
WERE that supplies strength to the body.
People of bilious lymphatic temperaments
are apt to use drastic medicines to excess
and ruin their constitutions. Once let
the insidious use of strong drugs under
mine the health and then nine times out
of ten the system never rallies to its pris
tine condition. Exercise is food, it is
health, it is life have given my life to
the study of the development of human
strength and endurance.
'How and when should person eXer
else to be healthy and not Oyerdc the
thing
Exercise should be avoided early in
the morning before breakfast on an empty
stomach. The air is very unwholesome
early in the morning and until the sun
has purified it with its generous beams
to breathe it freely is injurious. Malarial
and chest diseases are liable to be taken,
hence the imperative necessity of avoiding
early morning exercise People who are
not professional athletes cannot stand the
fatigue of exercise before breakfast, and
it even weakens the regular professional
ones who are ignorant. The system is
weaker when person rises than al any
other period during the day. | well re-
member that | was forced to walk twenty
miles before breakfast when l began to
train. I came back weak and exhausted.
1t was wrong and did me more harm than
good. The athlete who trains on an empty
stomach is merely devitalizing himself
The proper way is to rise an hour or SO
| after the sun is up, take light breakfast,
and after the meal has been thoroughly
digested then take the exercise, Then
good work can be done without harm,
There are many points of practice
among oarsmen and other professionals
that are absolutely pernicious An oars
| man when he comes in from practice will
devote a few minutes to his boat before
he ruhs himself down. He should not
permit himself to cool down before he has
wiped away the refuse matter. The pores
of the skin are open then, but few min
| utes' rest closes them and the scrub
| doesn I do so much good, 1t is common
| sense that is needed more than anything
| else. Then another fatal error is the
| shock and reaction theory. The young
| oarsman while heated jumps into n cold
| bath. Coming out to the natural tenn
| peratAre of the air there is a shock with
| ont any reaction. Young Maxwell, a
| promising oarsman. killed himself in this
way He leaped into the water from his
boat, took n congestive chill and died in
the hospital. The proper way to cool off
a man is the same as that of race horse
| Rub him slowly, cautiously, and in the
mans case use plenty of salt in the water
with which he is sponged. \ pint of salt
should be used 10 pail of water, thor
oughly dissolved. During the cooling
process moderate walking should be
| taken under a blanket. There should
never be sudden change from intense
exercise TO perfect rest; the PROCESS
should be gradual The great cardinal
| principals of all training are simply com
mon sense and temperance in exercise.
| DIET OF ATHLETES
''Do all athletes agree upon the subject
OF diet:'
No. for / differ materially from my
brother athletes. deprecate the use of
rare meat Many suppose it is more
| strengthening than well cooked meat, but
it is a great mistake, it requires a cast
iron stomach, one with great tone and
| strength, to digest rare meat, and the be
| ginner, as a rule, is not able 10 do it.
| Nothing is well digested in the stomach
against which the palate revolts. l can
not eat rare meat unless l spice il up
highly with condiments, and they are
positively impervious to digestion. Meat
| should neither be rare nor too well done,
but a medium that retains its natural
| Juices. The rare meat idea has done a
great deal Of harm, and the sooner it is
exploded the better. Without physical
vitality the greatest accomplishments
amount to nothing. The American
scholar, as a rule, is dyspeptic He is a
razor faced, lantern jawed, thin, nervous
man. The old regimen for the student is
obsolete and almost as fatal as yellow
fever, long morning walks before break
fast, reduction of diet little sleep and fire.
quent cold baths without well supported
vitality 1t is wonder how many
students live, any way"
is there a special weight in proportion
to mans height for him to perform
athletic feats?'
Eyes If a man is feet high he should
weigh from 103 TO 10S pounds to bt
athletic in proportion. The proportion:
are arranged as follows, and they are nc
curate unless on account of some abnormal
defects: Height feet 4 inches, weigh
from 119 to 125 pounds; height 5 feet
inches, weight from 133 to 40 pounds
height feet s inches, weight from 40 K
$50 pounds; height 5 feet inches, weigh
: from $50 to 1872 pounds; height ) feet II
inches, weight from 1862 to 112 pounds
height feet II inches, weight from Il:
to 1872 pounds; height feet, weight from
1S0 to 1872 pounds, 1t will be found thu
above figures show what the weight Of {;
man should be in good condition accord
ing to the size of his bone, neck, chest
wrist. ankle and height, and, as rule, i
his measurement does not compare closel.
with these figures, he must be consider
ably out of proportion. New York Mai
and Express.